Norma Winstone, John Parricelli, Jeremy Robson and Amy Key Blue Moon: Music and Words SOLD OUT Worcester College: Provost’s Lodgings 6:00pm Thu 30 Thursday, 30 March 2023 See this event Tim Marshall The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space will Change our World SOLD OUT Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Thu 30 Thursday, 30 March 2023 See this event Toni Kan and Mitterand Okorie Interviewed by SarahBelle Selig What do we do with a Man like James Currey? CANCELLED Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Thu 30 Thursday, 30 March 2023 See this event It was a privilege for me to visit the festival to receive the Bodley Medal. As an incidental blessing I saw Oxford at its most mysterious and atmospheric. It was a day of piercing cold and as I walked through the twilight from the Sheldonian to Christ Church, the streets were empty and the whole city was shutting itself away. Christ Church was silent except for the footfall of unseen persons around corners and the sounds of evensong creeping from behind closed doors. For the first time I understood thoroughly the power of college ghost stories. Their interests have not been trivialized, vast amount of money is transferred to the Left Behind areas from London (mostly) and SE England.

English Food: A People’s History – HarperCollins Publishers UK

Diane’s book English Food: a People’s History available here: https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/english-food-a-peoples-history-diane-purkiss?variant=39825973411918 EU is extremely popular with Polish people – at least according to every single poll. PiS has made it very clear that is fully committed to EU membership. Graham Boynton Wild: The Life and Times of Peter Beard Weston Lecture Theatre 2:00pm Thu 30 Thursday, 30 March 2023 See this event

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Elizabeth Raffald with Alessandra Pino & Neil Buttery https://open.spotify.com/episode/0oPYbFhNAfIHOfj6KL9RWC?si=cfdfadbbf32a4d24 The vicar in the village tells you that the dead that remain in the earth are those condemned to hell. Some people say that the dead riders are wreathed in flames, and their saddles are red-hot iron. Those people say that if you do get any power from the riders, it’s the power of hell and devils.

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Louisa Treger Interviewed by Alexandra Pringle Mad Woman Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Thu 30 Thursday, 30 March 2023 See this event English Food: A People’s History. A history of English food and recipes designed for the general reader, arguing that food history as document in literary writings is a crucial neglected source for social history. The slightly confusing conclusion – “Sometimes food is what we want or need to forget. For something else. Manners. Friendliness. Sociability. Love. Family” – feels like it was rushed, and this reader would have liked to learn more about the brief life of the Jewish Bakers Union, the link between poor dental health and the Victorian appetite for mushy macaroni, and countless other tantalising references which sent me scurrying to the footnotes, bowl in hand. However full you are, it seems there’s always room for a little bit more.If you wanted to ever have fruit, you had to be acting to preserve every tiny scrap of it. They’re preserving not only peak, ripe, glossy apples, but gathering up what they call the greenings, the windfalls that dropped before they were ripe. There are dozens of uses for those—you can make them into a kind of vinegar for salad dressing, or into a relish, or into a sugar paste as a dessert. All this thinking and planning and oversight is hugely interesting. It wasn’t like the weirdness of being a housewife in the 1950s, where inessentially you were confined to a tiny, not very interactive, space. It was more like running an enterprise of reasonable size. He is also talking at Chelsea History Festival on Friday 29 September 2023, at 6pm about the history of sugar: https://chelseahistoryfestival.com/